House clearance in Pulborough is RH20 work, and RH20 work is mostly houses that nobody has emptied in forty years. Village semis with a long back garden, bungalows on the flat ground above the brooks, a flat over a shop on the main road, farm cottages down a track you would not take a long-wheelbase van down twice. We have been clearing them since 2007. The job worth telling first, though, is one that never needed us to meet the customer at all.
A flat clearance booked entirely on photographs
June 2025. A second-floor flat, furniture only, arranged by a relative who lived a long way off and could not simply pop round with a key. It started with a single line asking what we would want to know — "Do I need to list the items?" — and the honest answer is no, photographs are quicker. Two emails of pictures came through, one room at a time, and then a list arrived anyway, which was better still.
Lounge: a three-piece suite, and a fire with its surround. Kitchen: cooker, fridge freezer, washing machine. One bedroom held a king-size bed base and mattress and a headboard with bedside tables attached to it, drawers and all — the sort of thing that looks like one item in a photograph and turns into three on the landing. The second bedroom had a wardrobe, a chest of drawers, two office cupboards and a single bed base and mattress. In the hall, on its own, a second king-size mattress standing against the wall.
And one line in the correspondence did more for that job than anything else: "The items will be cleared ready to take with nothing on them." Which meant exactly what it said. Nothing stacked on the wardrobe, no bin bags balanced on the suite, no drawers full of paperwork that somebody would want back. The team walked in, and every piece on the list was a piece they could pick up. Sixteen messages across six threads to set that up, and worth every one of them.
Two mattresses and a three-piece suite off the second floor is the whole of the day's work, in truth. Everything came down by hand. The fridge freezer went off for degassing, because a sealed unit cannot be tipped like a bookcase, and the suite and the mattresses went the way upholstery has to go now. More on that below.
That is the shape of a lot of our work here: somebody a county or two away, a set of photographs, a key from an agent, and a phone call at the end of the day to say it is done.
Where we go, and how we get there
Pulborough sits in the Horsham district of West Sussex, on RH20, at the point where the A29 crosses the A283 and the Arun flattens out into the brooks below the village. The station is on the Arun Valley line — Billingshurst and Horsham northbound, Amberley and Arundel southbound, Victoria in a shade over the hour — and that railway is a fair map of our working week. Inside RH20 we clear in Storrington, West Chiltington, Ashington and Thakeham. Billingshurst is up the road, and there is house clearance in Billingshurst on its own page. Petworth and Fittleworth lie west; house clearance in Worthing has a page too. North of us the town work is bigger and busier, and house clearance in Horsham is written up separately. Over the shoulder of the downs the postcodes turn to BN: Steyning and Upper Beeding in BN44, Henfield in BN5, and then the coast at Shoreham-by-Sea in BN43.
Access is the thing that varies most across RH20. The older village centre has houses set straight onto the pavement with no drive and a bus route going past the door, so the van parks where it can and the walk with each load is longer than anyone would like. The post-war estates off the main road are easier — a driveway, a garage, a gate wide enough for a fridge. Out towards West Chiltington and Thakeham you get single-track lanes with passing places and a gravel turning circle at the end, and there we would sooner send the smaller van twice than wedge a big one against a hedge. Tell us on the phone which of those three you have and the crew arrive with the right vehicle.
The kinds of house clearance we do in Pulborough
Probate house clearance in Pulborough
Most of what we do in RH20 is probate work, and it has a particular character here: the person who owned the house lived in it a very long time, and the person sorting it out lives somewhere else entirely. We have run probate clearances in Pulborough booked from another county, and once for a family most of the way to South America. The three practical questions never change. Who opens the door — an agent, a neighbour, a key safe. What must not leave the house — write it down, leave the list on a table, and nothing gets argued about afterwards. And who we invoice, which is the next section.
On probate jobs we invoice the solicitor, the executor or the estate directly, whichever suits the people handling it. Payment can come out of the estate, so an executor is not putting their own money in and waiting to get it back. There is no deposit. We do not need one to hold a date.
End of tenancy clearance in Pulborough
End of tenancy work runs to a different clock. There is a checkout date, an inventory, and a landlord or managing agent who wants the place empty and swept rather than emptied and left. Most end of tenancy jobs in Pulborough are one van and part of a day — beds, a sofa, kitchen contents, whatever went into the shed and stayed there. If the agent holds the keys we can work while nobody is there at all, which is normally what everybody prefers.
Garage and loft clearance in Pulborough, gardens included
Not everything is a whole property. A garage that has not been opened since the car stopped fitting in it, a loft reached through a hatch on the landing, a garden with a greenhouse and a shed and a heap of broken things by the patio. Those are ordinary bookings, and often they are the part of a house clearance in Pulborough that the family cannot face doing themselves. A house and its garden feel like a single job to the person arranging it and behave like two entirely different ones once the van is outside: furniture down a staircase, then rusted metal and rotten timber out of long grass. We would rather say that at the start than discover it at four in the afternoon.
Properties that have quietly filled up over thirty or forty years are an ordinary booking here too, not a special request. No comments get made, and the crew have been inside enough houses that yours will not be the one they think about on the drive home. What helps is honesty beforehand — food left in a fridge since spring, rodents in the loft insulation, damp under the carpets — because that decides how many people come and what kit is loaded.
What house clearance in Pulborough costs
One thing only on this page about cost: ring the office on 0800 046 5555, or send photographs through the form on this page, and you will get a figure. That is it. A picture of a loft hatch, a garage or a patio pile tells us more in ten seconds than a paragraph can, which is why the flat above was settled without anybody driving anywhere. Describe the rooms if you would rather talk it through — the office would sooner ask you six questions than guess.
Paperwork, charities and the awkward items
Anything still usable, we would sooner see used than tipped. Bagged clothing, sound furniture, tools, crockery and unopened household goods go to charity shops and reuse schemes around Pulborough, Storrington and Billingshurst — a short run rather than a long one, which matters when the alternative is another mile of loaded van. What is genuinely finished with is weighed in at a permitted transfer station, and it comes back to you as paperwork. We are a registered waste carrier, licence CBDU419679, and fully insured. If an estate file needs the transfer notes, ask at the start and we will keep them for you; the note is raised when the load is tipped, and we send our copy on with the paperwork.
A few categories cannot ride in a general load. Paint tins, aerosols, solvents, patio gas and camping cylinders travel on their own terms — we either book them in properly or tell you exactly where they go, because burying them in with the furniture would be an offence rather than a kindness. Upholstered furniture is the other one: sofas, armchairs and padded dining chairs carry fire-treated foam, and since the persistent organic pollutant rules came in that foam has to be kept out of the ordinary stream and sent for incineration. Fridges and freezers are handled separately as well, because the gas has to come out under controlled conditions before the carcass is broken up. Sharps belong in a proper container — the surgery that supplied it or the district council's clinical waste collection takes it back; we do not carry them.
Questions we get asked about house clearance in Pulborough
Do you cover the villages, or only Pulborough itself? Both. RH20 takes in Storrington, West Chiltington, Ashington and Thakeham as well as Pulborough, and we are in Billingshurst, Petworth, Steyning and Henfield regularly enough that a village address is no trouble at all.
Can you invoice a solicitor or executor for a probate clearance? Yes. On probate house clearance we invoice the solicitor, the executor or the estate directly, and payment can come from the estate rather than out of an executor's own pocket. There is no deposit, and we do not ask for one to hold a date.
We are at the end of a tenancy and the checkout is in three days. Is that enough notice? Usually, yes, for a flat or a small house. Ring the office rather than emailing if the date is tight — the run for the week is put together by phone, and a short job can often be dropped into an afternoon.
Nobody can be there on the day. Does that matter? No. A great deal of our work runs on a key safe code, an agent's keys or a neighbour with a spare set, and written permission from you to open up and clear. We ring when the team are in, and again when they are out.
What do you need from us before you can quote? Photographs of each room or area, the postcode, and a note of anything staying. That is enough to price most jobs without a visit.
What happens to what you take away? Anything reusable goes to charity shops and reuse schemes locally. The rest is weighed in at a permitted transfer station under our carrier licence, CBDU419679, and the transfer note is available if the estate file needs it.
If you want a figure for a house clearance in Pulborough, Storrington, West Chiltington, Billingshurst or anywhere along the Arun Valley line, call 0800 046 5555 or send photographs through the form on this page. Tell us what is staying, and we will price the rest.
